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of the blotches varies a good deal. In some it is a pale greyish or 

 purplish brown ; in others decidedly reddish, or even well-marked 

 and somewhat yellowish brown. Some pale, purplish streaks and 

 clouds generally underlie the brown blotches where they are 

 thickest, and there form a kind of nimbus. In some eggs the 

 markings are confined to a narrow imperfect zone of pale purplish 

 specks or very tiny blotches round the large end, and some of the 

 eggs remind one of those of Leucocercu albifrontata. The peculiar 

 streaky longitudinal character of the markings, almost wholly 

 confined to the large end, best distinguishes the eggs of the loras 

 from those of any other Indian bird with which they are likely to 

 be confounded. 



In length they vary from 0-63 to 0-76, and in breadth from 0-51 

 to O57 : but the average of forty-seven eggs measured is 0*69, 

 nearly, by a trifle more than 0-54. 



246. Myzornis pyrrliura, Hodgs. The Fire-tailed Myzornis. 



Myzornis pyrrhoura, Hodgs., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 263; Hume, Rough 

 'Draft ijt.fy E. no. 629. 



I have received a single egg said to belong to the Fire-tailed 

 Myzornis from Native Sikhim, where it was found in May in a 

 small nest (unfortunately mislaid) which was placed on a branch 

 of a large tree at no great height from the ground. The place 

 where it was found had an elevation of about 10,000 feet. Although 

 the parent bird was sent with the egg, I cannot say that I have 

 any great confidence in its authenticity, and only record the 

 matter quantum valeat. 



The egg is a very regular, rather elongated oval. The egg was 

 never properly blown and has been consequently somewhat dis- 

 coloured. It may have been pure white, and it may have been 

 fairly glossy when fresh, but it is now a dull ivory-white with 

 scarcely any gloss. It measured 0'68 in length by 0'5 in breadth. 



252. Chloropsis jerdoni (Bl.). Jerdons Chloropsis. 



Phyllornis jerdoni, Bl., Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 97 : Hume, Rowjh Draft 

 N. Sf E. no. 463. 



I have never myself found the nest of Jerdon's Chloropsis, but 

 my friend Mr. F. K.. Blewitt has sent me numerous specimens of 

 both nests and eggs from Eaipoor and its neighbourhood. 



In that part of the country July and August appear to be the 

 months in which it lays ; but elsewhere its eggs have been taken in 

 April, May, and June, so that its breeding-season is much the same 

 as that of many of the Bulbuls. The nest is a small, rather shallow 

 cup, at most 3| inches in diameter and 1| in depth; is composed 

 externally entirely of soft tow-like vegetable fibre, which appears 



